INRIX® and GeoDecisions®, a leading information technology company specializing in geospatial solutions, announced today that INRIX has been selected to provide highly accurate real-time traffic flow and incident data in the guidance and support of nationwide U.S. military logistics planning and homeland security operations.

GeoDecisions is integrating INRIX real-time traffic flow and incident data into the IRRIS portal, an enterprise Web application that supports transportation security and logistics for U.S. state and federal agencies and for enterprise applications in the private sector. IRRIS users will now be able to access INRIX traffic information to obtain current traffic conditions and support transportation logistics and management, including the transport of sensitive materials. Leveraging the power of INRIX Connected Services, GeoDecisions is using the new INRIX Traffic Tile Service to overlay traffic maps on GeoDecisions’ application, which uses the ESRI® map platform.

“Our clients demand the most current and accurate information available to ensure the safety of American citizens,” said Brendan Wesdock, vice president. “INRIX can help us bring flexible, innovative, high-quality technology solutions to key government operations.”

The IRRIS technology application was developed by GeoDecisions in partnership with the U.S. military to support the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) with logistics, location and proximity analysis, data sharing, collaboration, transportation security and situational awareness. IRRIS integrates and displays worldwide infrastructure data, live-vehicle tracking, near-real-time weather, and active route conditions in a map format using a single secure interface. This technology now serves nearly 2000 users across the Defense Transportation System.

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As INRIX has created its world-class Connected Service platform featuring real-time and predictive traffic as well as the first 3rd Generation Routine Engine, we have worked to optimize the configurations and scenarios for a suite of device connectivity options. This webinar will provide insight into the options available for connecting to in-car content -- including broadcast, 2-way connected, and hybrid solutions -- and the trade-offs and scenarios that can help to optimize the customer experience.

INRIX has deployed an array of real-time data services that can be leveraged across a variety of connected devices and applications. Traffic will always be a core INRIX Connected Service, however we have started to leverage our traffic information in a variety of other scenarios, including traffic-influenced routing.

With the imminent launch of Ford SYNC with Traffic, Directions and Information the public will begin to experience INRIX's revolutionary 3rd Generation Routing engine that leverages our high-quality real-time and predictive traffic information to ensure the fastest and most accurate routes are delivered to navigation devices. Learn about this 3rd Generation Off-board Routing platform and the scenarios and opportunities for leveraging connected navigation platforms both in and out of vehicles.

We had such significant attendance and interest in our recent webinar Benchmarking Traffic Data Quality: Best Practices for Analyzing the Quality of Traffic Information, that we decide to prepare a technical follow up on this important topic.

INRIX's Senior Scientist, Chris Scofield, will deliver an in-depth discussion of the nature of INRIX traffic and the vagaries and intricacies of creating high quality traffic information. He will then provide a detailed discussion of some of the techniques of evaluating the quality of traffic data and the usefulness of the specific techniques depending on the scenario and application of the traffic information.

In late February, INRIX released the second annual INRIX National Traffic Scorecard, revealing a startling 30 percent decline in traffic congestion in 2008 during the peak periods on major roads in urban America. Overall the report found that 99 of the top 100 most populated cities in the U.S. experienced decreases in traffic congestion levels in 2008 as compared to the prior year.

The Scorecard contains the most accurate and current information in the country regarding overall congestion and bottlenecks on nearly 50,000 miles of America’s major roadways, and is compiled using tens of billions of data points from INRIX’s network of nearly one million GPS-enabled cars and trucks traveling across over 800,000 miles of roads.

This webinar -- hosted by Rick Schuman, the report author and INRIX Vice President of Public Sector -- provides an executive summary of the report findings.

Benchmarking Traffic Data Quality (Click 'View Event Recording')

In a further industry effort to demystify the analysis of traffic information quality, INRIX recently published Benchmarking Traffic Data Quality: Best Practices for Analyzing the Quality of Traffic Information. This 60-page guide showcases best practices, key metrics and INRIX thought leadership on this important topic.

Hosted by INRIX CTO Craig Chapman and VP of Marketing Scott Sedlik, this webinar offers a technical primer on traffic data quality providing a benchmark from which to evaluate the many components that make up the quality of traffic information. The discussion will describe the processes and methods INRIX uses to validate, measure and verify the quality of traffic reporting data. In addition, it outlines best practices for the planning and execution of ground truth testing of traffic flow data, including results from the just published I-95 Corridor Coalition report and from recent ground truth tests conducted by INRIX and its partner, Clear Channel Total Traffic Network.

Using INRIX Traffic Tile Overlays to Create Traffic Maps (Click 'View Event Recording')

Easily create traffic maps using new INRIX Connected Services functionality for creating a traffic overlay on your map of choice. This hosted service offering allows for an application to make an API request to INRIX and receive back a semi-transparent overlay image of INRIX Traffic flow for display on top of a map.

This webinar, hosted by Technical Account Manager Jason Kheriaty and Sr. Director of Product Management Ken Kranseler, will demonstrate how INRIX Traffic Tiles allow for applications to easily add traffic as a layer on top of their existing maps. Tile sizes are configurable by customer to fit your application and map projection style. Multiple types of traffic are available via this overlay service including INRIX Real-time, Historical and Total Fusion Traffic.

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